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2. Agricultural producer perceptions of climate change and climate education needs for the Central Great Plains
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hibbs, Amber Campbell (author), Kahl, Daniel (author), PytlikZillig, Lisa (author), Champion, Ben (author), Abdel-Monem, Tarik (author), Steffensmeier, Timothy (author), Rice, Charles W. (author), and Hubbard, Kenneth (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-06
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06056
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 52(3) : 3FEA2
- Notes:
- 8 pages.
3. Attention, access and dialogue in the global newspaper sample: notes on the dependency, complexity and contingency of climate summit journalism
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kumpu, Ville (author) and Kunelius, Risto (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- International: Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06848
- Notes:
- Pages 313-330 in Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius (eds.), Media meets climate: the global challenge for journalism. Nordicom, Goteborg, Sweden. 340 pages.
4. Communicating climate change
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Rohling, Katie (author), Wandersee, Cassie (author), Baker, Lauri M. (author), and Tomlinson, Peter (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 2016-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D08133
- Notes:
- Research paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists (SAAS) in San Antonio, Texas, February 7-8, 2016. 23 pages.
5. Communication platforms and perspectives on climate change among layer farmers in San Jose, Batangas, Philippines
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Medina, Benedict O. (author), Hidalgo, Angela Rose A. (author), and Tabliago, Jhendell A. (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-06
- Published:
- IJELS
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11009
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- 4(3) : 535-547
- Notes:
- 13 pages., via online journal., Communication plays a vital role in a developing society as it could be used for developing of perspectives. This study aimed to analyze the communication and perspectives on climate change among layer farmers in San Jose, Batangas, Philippines. Descriptive research design in a quantitative approach, along with distributed survey questionnaires to the respondents in the said municipality were utilized to answer the research objectives. Systematic random sampling was used to get the sample size of the layer farmers. Statistical tools such as frequency/percentage, weighted mean and Pearson’s correlation were also used. The layer farmers were greatly exposed in interpersonal communication platforms. Demonstration, meetings, seminars and trainings were of less extent. Radio, television and cellphones were widely used by the layer farmers, while very few had access on the internet. Furthermore, they agreed on food security, water sufficiency, ecological and environmental stability, human security and knowledge and capacity development. However, they moderately agreed on climate-smart industries and services, and sustainable energy. Findings also showed that there is a significant relationship between the layer farmers’ perspectives to the communication platforms they were exposed to.
6. Does risk communication really decrease cooperation in climate change mitigation?
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Farjam, Mike (author), Nikolaychuk, Olexandr (author), and Bravo, Giangiacomo (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-07
- Published:
- Springer
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10535
- Journal Title:
- Climatic Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 149:147–158
- Notes:
- 12 pages., via online journal., Effective communication of risks involved in the climate change discussion is crucial and despite ambitious protection policies, the possibility of irreversible consequences actually occurring can only be diminished but never ruled out completely. We present a laboratory experiment that studies how residual risk of failure of climate change policies affects willingness to contribute to such policies. Despite prevailing views on people’s risk aversion, we found that contributions were higher at least in the final part of treatments including a residual risk. We interpret this as the product of a psychological process where residual risk puts participants into an ”alarm mode,” keeping their contributions high. We discuss the broad practical implications this might have on the real-world communication of climate change.
7. Natural versus anthropogenic climate change: Swedish farmers’ joint construction of climate perceptions
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Asplund, Therese (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Published:
- SAGE Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10596
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 25(5), 560–575
- Notes:
- 16 pages., via online journal., While previous research into understandings of climate change has usually examined general public perceptions, this study offers an audience-specific departure point. This article analyses how Swedish farmers perceive climate change and how they jointly shape their understandings. The agricultural sector is of special interest because it both contributes to and is directly affected by climate change. Through focus group discussions with Swedish farmers, this study finds that (1) farmers relate to and understand climate change through their own experiences, (2) climate change is understood either as a natural process subject to little or no human influence or as anthropogenic and (3) various communication tools contribute to the formation of natural and anthropogenic climate change frames. The article ends by discussing frame resonance and frame clash in public understanding of climate change and by comparing potential similarities and differences in how various segments of the public make sense of climate change.
8. Perceptions of climate change and trust in information providers in rural Australia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Buys, Laurie (author), Aird, Rosemary (author), Van Megen, Kimberley (author), Miller, Evonne (author), and Sommerfeld, Jeffrey (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2014
- Published:
- Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02803
- Journal Title:
- Public Understanding of Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(2) : 170-188
9. Seeing is not always believing: crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Niles, Meredith T. (author), Wiener, Sarah (author), Schattman, Rachel E. (author), Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle (author), and Reyes, Julian (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-26
- Published:
- USA: IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10345
- Journal Title:
- Environmental Research Letters
- Journal Title Details:
- 14(4)
- Notes:
- 11 pages., Via online journal article., As climate change is expected to significantly affect agricultural systems globally, agricultural farm advisors have been increasingly recognized as an important resource in helping farmers address these challenges. While there have been many studies exploring the climate change belief and risk perceptions as well as behaviors of both farmers and agricultural farm advisors, there are very few studies that have explored how these perceptions relate to actual climate impacts in agriculture. Here we couple survey data from United States Department of Agriculture farm service employees (n = 6, 514) with historical crop loss data across the United States to explore the relationship of actual climate-related crop losses on farm to farm advisor perceptions of climate change and future farmer needs. Using structural equation modelling we find that among farm advisors that work directly with farms on disaster and crop loss issues, there is a significant positive relationship between crop loss and perceived weather variability changes, while across all farm advisors crop loss is associated with reduced likelihood to believe in anthropogenic climate change. Further, we find that weather variability perceptions are the most consistently and highly correlated with farm advisors' perceptions about the need for farm adaptation and future farmer needs. These results suggest that seeing crop loss may not lead to climate change belief, but may drive weather variability perceptions, which in turn affect farm adaptation perceptions. This lends further evidence to the debate over terminology in climate change communication and outreach, suggesting that weather variability may be the most salient among agricultural advisors.
10. Understanding the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers: Evidence from land reform beneficiaries in South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Thinda, K.T. (author), Ogundeji, A.A. (author), Belle, J.A. (author), and Ojo, T.O. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11872
- Journal Title:
- Land Use Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 99
- Notes:
- 11 pages, Climatic change has a negative impact on people’s livelihoods, agriculture, freshwater supply and other natural resources that are important for human survival. Therefore, understanding how rural smallholder farmers perceive climate change, climate variability, and factors that influence their choices would facilitate a better understanding of how these farmers adapt to the negative impacts of climate change. A Zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers’ adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa. Different socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, and experience in crop farming, institutional factors like access to extension services, and access to climate change information significantly influenced the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among beneficiaries of land reform in South Africa. Concerning intensity of adoption, age, educational level, farming experience, on-farm training, off-farm income, access to information through ICT and locational variables are the significant determinants of intensity of adaptation strategies. Thus, education attainment, non-farm employment, farming experience are significant incentives to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity through the adoption of many adaptation approaches. This study therefore concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers, particularly during the off-cropping season. The income from non-farm employment can be plough-back into farm operations such as the adoption of soil and water conservation, use of improved planting varieties, insurance, among others to mitigate climate variability and subsequently increase productivity. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting education, providing on-farm demonstration trainings, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in the country. Thus, the government, stakeholders, and donor agencies must provide capacity-building innovations around the agricultural extension system and education on climate change using information and communication technologies.